I ran my hybrid Java/C app on 21 different Android devices, with lots of help from my colleagues here at Android Authority. The Android versions include Android 4.4 KitKat, ...

32 thoughts on “ Writing Android Apps In C, No Java Required ” RW ver 0.0.3 says: May 13, ... No wonder Android apps are so slow and massive if they’re written in Java!

Java vs Kotlin for Android app development. ... This will give the text label the name “helloButton” and will state that the method “onHelloButtonClick” will reference this view.

Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large ...

Android's Achilles heel, aside from the "toxic hellstew" of security patches and fragmentation -- which is outside the scope of this article and my Survival Test series -- is Java.

That was the topic of the keynote speech that Amazon's director of app developer services gave at the AnDevCon conference in San Francisco last week. In his keynote presentation, Ethan Evans delved ...